the V16 Auto Union Type C on ice

https://www.collierautomedia.com/kristensen-and-auto-union-type-c-star-at-ice-st-moritz

Bernd Rosemeyer on his way to victory at Monza, 1936

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10225723681817151&set=a.10222918578891331

Have I been looking at too much art, or can this be the work of Bernd Rueters?

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=5939432006085155&set=g.192440614694620

the 1937 V16 Auto Union, quite the eye candy. Skip to the 45 second mark if the video doesn't automatically do that for you

1930s Gran Prix racing around the world with the fastest cars of the 1930s, mostly the Auto Union Silver Arrows, plus midget racing, and Indianapolis

 

this is easier to watch on You Tube, which formats the movie properly, far larger than this

Walter Gotschke (1912-2000) is one of the best painters of cars

http://artcontrarian.blogspot.com/2018/04/walter-gotschke-illustrates-adler.html
http://linesandcolors.com/2010/07/13/walter-gotschke/

Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse Grand Prix, a vintage race car hillclimb

https://www.facebook.com/grossglocknergrandprix/posts/1463251877055153

one of the 4 circles in the Auto Union logo was for Wanderer, and it's very uncommon to see anything about them. Here are a couple 1937's being advertised

http://aacalibrary.tumblr.com/post/156983739220/1937-auto-union-wanderer-from-1937-wanderer

Wanderer, DKW, Audi and Horch

the silver bullets

the Silver Arrows were the most spectacular, most sophisticated, and most visionary cars in motorsports history. The astonishing Auto Union Type A that debuted in 1934 featured an exotic V-16 engine mounted behind the driver, pioneering the template that is used to this day.

They were powered by the experimental and chemically exotic witch’s brew of methanol, nitromethane, and acetone  (In the interest of health, the nitrobenzene and sulfuric ether used in the 1930s are no longer permitted.)

By 1937, the sleek yet brutal Mercedes-Benz W125 was using a supercharged straight-eight engine that produced a mind-boggling 646 hp — or more than any Formula 1 car until the early 1980s.

The cars were driven to victories from New York to North Africa by the incomparable Bernd Rosemeyer, the indomitable Rudi Caracciola, Tazio Nuvolari, Achille Varzi, Hans Stuck, Hermann Lang, Manfred von Brauchitsch, and Dick Seaman.

and the 2013 Goodwood Revival was the first time the Mercedes-Benzes and Auto Unions had faced off on a racetrack since 1939. To call the Revival the world’s best vintage race car event is to damn it with faint praise. For sheer entertainment value, the three-day extravaganza is arguably the most impressive motorsports spectacle on the planet.

http://www.automobilemag.com/news/silver-bullets/

cool simple car poster art of Arthur Schening

http://www.scheningcreative.com/auto-art/autos.html via http://www.petrolicious.com/

1925 Auto Union Wanderer W25 Roadster from the Schlumpf collection at the Mullin Museum

Allow me to feel happy about photographing old german gauges... these are the first I can remember seeing or photographing

Seven cars from the Schlumpf Reserve collection at the Mullin Museum, unrestored, and in the same condition as they've been in for decades

Also see Justacargal's gallery http://justacargal.blogspot.com/2011/12/mullin-museum-schlumpf-collection.html of the Schlumpf Bugattis

For a photo of the collection in the Schlumpf warehouse: http://theoldmotor.com/?p=36666 

The Schlumpf Collection may have been the most prestigious car collection in the world. This is demonstrated by the two of the only 6 made Bugatti Royales, including the famous Coupé Napoléon, the 150 Bugatti, Hispano-Suiza, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Maserati, Maybach, Mercedes models, etc.

It was in a former woollen mill that Fritz Schlumpf established his collection of 437 cars belonging to 97 different brands. With part of it on display at the Cité de l’Automobile, it is certainly a must see if you get to France

The collection was seized by the workers employed by the Schlumpf brothers, who had collected for years, and topped off their collection when Hispano Suiza needed to liquidate many of the Bugatti assets in 1963 after having purchased the Bugatti company. The Schlumpfs puchased Ettore Bugatti’s personal Bugatti Royale and many original spares and patterns—over the strong objections of the managing director and Roland Bugatti, Ettore Bugatti’s surviving son.

In 1971 the union of workers that had been restoring the cars, building restaurants, and a hotel that would have housed guests to the collection, went on strike, at the same time that the business of wool mills was having a worldwide textile crises and years later the French government seized all of the Schlumpf assetts, including 437 vehicles. The strike was part of what forced the brothers to flee to Switzerland, echoing Bugatti's flight to Paris in the 1937 strike. Read all about it http://www.sportscardigest.com/schlumpf-collection-profile-and-photo-gallery

3 photos of the other cars from the Schulmpf collection, now on display in France at the National Museum in Mulhouse, the Cité de l’Automobile are here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/schlumpf-collection-is-on-display-in.html

Or read about the museum here: http://www.finecars.cc/en/editorial/article/news/a-passion-for-french-coach-built-cars-the-mullin-automotive-museum/index.html?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=303&cHash=4f491e9145